Month: January 2006

This is what is concerning Danes at the moment http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4656664.stm

Added February 16, 2006: The above is a model example of an irrelevant post.

A few evenings ago all the trees were heavy with an iced glaze.

The snow is doing all sorts of interesting things at the moment. Today it gave all the trees thorns as the picture shows. This is a hazel tree which normally does not have thorns.

You’ll never guess who dropped by today!

Listen here.

 

David Attenborough is wrong! It was only a couple of weeks ago that we saw a programme in which he said that only chimps and dolphins understood what was on a TV screen but here is proof positive that Hazel is either a genius or that cats also understand  (partly) what they see on the TV.

This picture was taken after she leapt across the coffee table towards the TV when Tony started playing footage of our birdtable recorded at the weekend. Tony’s interest in bullfinches is recorded at http://nimtoftebullfinch.homestead.com

The snow house has almost disappeared and our track reminds me of a film called ‘A River runs through it’ and I was thinking the house could acquire a name, the Seven Lakes.

There were strong winds on December 28, apparantly. I don’t remember them. Anyway it seems the waves got so high that the seals at the Kattegat Centre  in Grenaa were able to swim off into the open sea and this they did with ne’er a backward glance. You’d think they’d come back for the nosh but apparantly they haven’t and the Kattegat Centre are having to budget for some extra seals.

I went to collect Mia from a friend’s house a couple of days ago and they casually dropped into the conversation about their sharks. ‘Your what?’ I said thinking I had misheard and that I was headed for yet another embarassing misunderstanding. ‘Sharks!’ they said. This I had to see so I was led into their living room where there was a large aquarium about 5 foot long and yes indeed there were two sharks each about a foot long, swimming around. The mother was complaining that they were doing a terrible damage to the tasteful seascape she had built up in the aquarium and for that reason they would have to go. I did ask how big she expected them to get but don’t remember the answer.

A postcript regarding the Christmas drawing competition which has yet to have a declared winner. It seems that it was more difficult to access the drawing site this year and we ended up with about six entries from a certain ‘Tony’ plus one from Greg though we are not sure which year that dates from. So the competition is void.

The snow which fell on December 28 is still with us though it will probably disappear during this coming week. Mia has been practising by building igloos at a friend’s house on Tuesday and yesterday she built one here. Adding a roof is always problematic. So we have cheated and used other means. The picture shows the end result.

By the way, did you realise that by clicking on the picture you get it in a larger version (if it is larger that is)?

On Friday Hazel went to the vet to be sterilised. She was delivered in the morning and collected in the afternoon having also been chip-marked. When she got home she was very wobbly on her legs and didn’t seem to be able to see properly. However she hadn’t lost her curiosity and desire to jump and was trying to go upstairs and jumping up onto sofas and boxes as usual. Probably more painful to watch than to experience. We had to keep her indoors for two days and now she seems well onto the road to recovery (except for a bare patch on her stomach).

Well I don’t know about you but we were out and at school and work today. The snow has not melted and promises to be replenished on Thursday and Friday but our kind neighbour has cleared a path and so the way is clear.

Thank you for your good wishes for the new year which we reciprocate of course. On New Year’s Eve Ann, Claire and Jenny finally made their escape from Denmark but not before the car got stuck in a snow drift just round the corner from the house. However we managed to dig it out and they got their plane OK this time. So we saw the New Year in alone, just the four of us.

The photo shows Mia communing with Hazel.